Reality combat! This first-hand account of a WWII combat chaplain who served on the front-lines across North Africa and Europe with the 20th Combat Engineers is a unique journal containing information and observations not found in other books. Chappie recorded events as they occurred, transporting the reader to the battlefields of WWII in a way that puts a human face on the tragedy of war.

SAUL ZEPKA, eighteen, handsome, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn. Dreams of exploring the copper mines of Arizona or of being discovered in Hollywood are shattered by Pearl Harbor and his draft notice. Forty years later the former demolitions expert is still haunted by the accident he thinks he caused and the image of those two American soldiers lying face down in the dirty hedgerows of Normandy.

2nd in the series. The war on terror was now a decade old with no further attacks on the US, but with growing suicide bombings. Pres. Matthews, in office for two years, is invited by the French President to attend D-Day ceremonies at Omaha Beach. A French terrorist group has resolved to assassinate the US president, and CIA operatives have only five weeks to stop it. Also, a surprise ending.